yuuuuuletide

[fahye]

The official communities are talking about it, so WE'RE ALLOWED TO AS WELL. Nominations are approaching! Let's talk about fandoms!

I am definitely nominating:

- Discworld (Tiffany Aching, Preston)
- The Lady's Not For Burning (Thomas, Jennet, Margaret)

...and I suspect my third nomination will need some careful thought. I am having a serious craving for Midsummer Night's Dream fic about the fairies, but during my visit to the States I also got very excited about

- Bring It On (the musical)
- the London Olympic Opening Ceremony

And somone on the official nomination post mentioned Stranger Than Fiction which makes my writing brain go !%*&#?!! so I really hope it ends up on the list.

I will probably end up treat-writing for the Lizzie Bennet Diaries but I'm sure they'll be nominated and requested and offered all over the place, so I'm putting them aside for now.

TELL ME YOUR YULETIDE DREAMS, MY FRIENDS.

(I have been spending too much time on tumblr, I tried to tag this post 'I guess this means I should get a wriggle on and finish my Natasha Romanoff fic' before realising that I was, in fact, using Dreamwidth. Tumblr suits the way my brain feels when I get home from work, but I'm starting to really miss the comment-conversations and impetus to create of LJ/DW platforms. I might try to spend more time here and less time scrolling past gif sets.)

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid]

This year I shall endeavour to remember to nominate JV Jone's 'Sword of Shadows' series...

And, hmm... beyond that I'm not sure. Maybe RockNRolla, and probably my typical Chrétien de Troyes nominations.

[fahye]

Tell me about that first one you mentioned!

[ineptshieldmaid]

THEY ARE EPIC FANTASY NOVELS ABOUT THE APOCALYPSE. They have many many characters, lots of world-building details, plausible gender violence*, and a fascinating thematic thread developing concerning female sovereignty.

~

* If your pseudo medieval world more or less replicates medieval or renaissance gender politics and DOESN'T have plenty of rape or threat-of-rape in it, I find it implausible and am not interested. I REQUIRE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE RAPE.

[fahye]

Ooh, interesting! I am of course always interested in importing the apocalypse into existing canons for fic reasons, but haven't read many published books in the genre.

[ineptshieldmaid]

I strongly recommend Mieville's Kraken for the apocalypse!

[fahye]

That one I HAVE actually read; I suppose I think of it more as an apocalypse-aversion story than a post-apocalyptic one. I don't remember a lot of details because the violence got a bit too precise and torturey for me so I let it all blur, but I have fond memories of groups of people of varying degrees of ineptitude stumbling around London ranting about squid.

[skygiants]

"groups of people of varying degrees of ineptitude stumbling around London ranting about squid" is the best summarization of Kraken I have ever seen.

(PS: OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONIES. IT'S HAPPENING.)

[fahye]

(I NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU AND KELSEY BETWEEN YOU ARE NOMINATING FOR THE CEREMONIES & BRING IT ON, SO I KNOW WHICH ONE I NEED TO HELP WITH FOR CHARACTER-COVERAGE.)

ps. what happened to sending me Princess Tutu so I could write it this year, huh huh huh?

[skygiants]

(MY PLAN IS TO NOMINATE OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY. Character list: Mary Poppins, Voldemort, Kenneth Branagh, and Dancing Captains of Industry. So someone else needs to cover Frankie and June and James Bond and the Queen!)

ps OH GOOD CALL I will send that this week >:D >:D >:D I need your mailing address though!

[fahye]

(I would be happy to cover them! Someone might need to give Kelsey a hand with Bring It On, although I suppose Danielle + Campbell + La Cienega + TINY SPARKLY PSYCHOPATH just about covers my ficcish desires OH NO WAIT BRIDGET!!)